In a previous column I referred to the hidden migrant camps in remote locations in Panama that are funneling middle easterners and other migrants through Costa Rica and on northward to the U.S. border. It is referred to as “controlled flow.” What has been happening in recent weeks has suddenly highlighted the clearly organized criminal […]
Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, the Morning Sentinel and the Western Maine weekly newspapers of the Sun Media Group. She serves as vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition and is a member of the Right to Know Advisory Committee to the Legislature. A journalist since 1990 and former editorial page editor for the Sun Journal, she was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003. She serves on the New England Newspaper & Press Association Board of Directors and was the 2018 recipient of the Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors. A fellow of the National Press Foundation and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, she attended George Washington University, lives in Auburn with her husband, Phil, and is an active member of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine.
Posted inFranklin, News, Oxford Hills
Forest Service settles harvesting violations in Oxford and Franklin counties
LEWISTON — The Maine Forest Service has entered into an administrative settlement agreement with David Roy, owner of Roy’s Logging of Auburn, according to a news statement. The settlement resolves a violation of the state’s Forest Practices Act on land harvested in Hartford. There, according to the Forest Service, timber was harvested without a harvest […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Mechanic Falls town clerk escorted from Municipal Building
Miranda Hinkley of Otisfield resigned Thursday and planned to work her two-week notice.
Posted inBethel, Franklin, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
This week’s agenda
Monday Dixfield: Select Board, 5:30 p.m., Ludden Memorial Library Jay: Special town meeting and Select Board, 6 p.m., Spruce Mountain Middle School Paris: Select Board 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Waterford: Selectmen, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Economic Development Committee, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Hartford: Road Committee, 7 p.m., […]
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
NYPD sorry for ’69 raid at now-landmark Stonewall gay bar
The apology comes just weeks ahead of the milestone anniversary of the raid and the rebellion it sparked.
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
Pride parade, festival in L-A next weekend
Pride L-A Maine will host a parade and festival on Saturday, June 29, at Simard-Payne Memorial Park in Lewiston. The parade begins at 11 a.m. at the park, marching across the Longley Bridge and ending at Festival Plaza in Auburn. The festival at Simard-Payne will go from noon to 4 p.m. FMI, go to: allevents.in/lewiston/stronger-together-2019-pride-l-a-maine-march-and-festival
Posted inOpinion, Perspective
She talked about her stalker to a true crime podcast. Here’s why that was healing
In 1996, just before my freshman year of high school in Chandler, Arizona, I went to check the mail one day and found a package addressed to me. Eagerly, I opened the large manila envelope and pulled out its contents, thinking it held good news about the cheerleading squad I’d just auditioned for. Instead, at […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Abhorrent sanctimony stains the left
As I listened recently to our minister’s sermon based on the Book of Acts wherein Peter is told that there is another view of Christian acceptance that differs from the orthodoxy of conventional Scripture, I thought of today’s political world. Two other insights buttressed the oppositional idea that we must challenge what is sometimes considered […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
‘Privatization’ isn’t what makes charter schools bad. It’s what makes them great.
When Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recently unveiled his education reform plan, it predictably castigated charter schools, claiming that they were “privatizing public schools.” Sanders joined a long line of leaders who tar charters with the privatization brush. Before, during and after the Los Angeles teachers strike last winter, union President Alex Caputo-Pearl did so repeatedly. […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, News, Oxford Hills, River Valley
This week’s agenda
Monday Casco: Open Space Commission, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Livermore: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Town Office Peru: Selectmen, 6 p.m., Town Office Tuesday Buckfield: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Municipal Center Casco: Select Board, 6:30 p.m., Casco Community Center Farmington: Franklin County Commission, 9 a.m., county building Farmington: RSU 9 Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m., […]